Sonic The Hedgehog Glitches (16-Bit) - Son Of A Glitch - Episode 32 

I love games that leave debug mode to play with. Don't see that anymore...

Thanks to everyone who supports the show, here's another episode. I hope you enjoy it and learn something new. Andy

When I was a kid, i remember getting about 50 hits on the final boss without him dying, and now you've finally explained why :) Thank you for helping me find out after 20 years what happened :D

So Debug Mode is basically Super SONIC Maker...? This Is Amazing.

There is a rom hack called "Hedgehog Abuse Simulator" where your in some type of debug mode and use spikes to get Sonic to normally unreachable platforms, which is a nice reference to the debug spike glitch.

A and Start. Oh, I get it...

I've played this game so many in the past but haven't seen most of these before :D I did always love messing around in that debug mode though :D Great job as usual :)

I learned that stupid final zone glitch the hardest way you can imagine. My mother bought me Sonic 1 the first week it came out, and after weeks of so many tries at beating the game, when i finally made it to final zone, i beat robotnik and got silly and hit him again and it screwed me out of my first win. I cried i was so upset.

It's ironic that you did the 16-bit game on episode 32

I found this channel while watching a speed run of LoZ: A Like to the Past. Been subbed ever since, and still loving the episodes.

Amazing. Hard to believe there's so much to see and learn in a game I played as a child. Great vid and great series!

I stumbled onto this channel randomly not to long ago and must say, your videos are really good. Cool seeing weird glitches in games. Keep up the good work :D

Sweet glitch vid, but there is one glitch you missed; The "White ending" glitch, in where if you hold right during the ending cut scene you take control of Sonic, he keep holding & runs right. If you trying too far far right he'll die & a "white ending" will appear, which is essentially a crash as no credit appear & you need to reset the game. I'm not sure if it works on the ports, but I know it does work on the Mega Drive (/Genesis) version.

If you look closely when the signpost glitches after doing the level wrap, you can see that it contains sprites of monitors that were removed from the final game.

I dont know how I havent found your channel until now. Love the vids man!

That final glitch happened to me when I was about 7 (long before I understood glitches), and I spent the next x amount of years wondering how and why! Thank you man!

I guess this is why SEGA nerfed Sonic's speed. He'd turn the game into a monstrosity...

8:16 we need to reset the game.

Totally awesome Son of a Glitch! I love playing Sonic the Hedgehog online and I never knew there were glitches in it! Those glitches you did were super awesome btw. Anyway, keep making your Son of a Glitch videos awesome!

Found this In the what to watch section. Definitely worth watching and now subscribed :)

6:21 "Ducking is illegal." -Sega Interprises

7 years later and I’m still loving this

so. many. glitches!!! nice work man, always love your content!

Awesome episode. Man I really love your glitch show, I love how you go into detail, and put so much work into it. Showing us all these possible glitches and whatnot. Keep up the great work u deserve lots more subscribers :D

so...sonic really is the fastest thing alive.

wait, does this mean that the first sonic game is the only sonic game where sonic can die by going TOO fast?

Thank you for the video! I spent hours as a kid unsuccessfully trying to recreate a Marble Zone lateral glitch which happened once, now i understand why it happened. Been holding on to that for years 😂

I always love watching these! They are so entertaining!

4:12 or just wait till the 10 minute timer runs out.

4:10 - If you do get stuck, you don't have to reset the game. Just wait for a Time Over (9 : 59) and you'll respawn at the last checkpoint you touched.

I don't know why but I find these videos really interesting! Makes me wish I knew them as a child playing your older game glitches.

Yes! This is awesome! This just popped into my recommended videos a few years too late! 😅 I love that you can zip to skip parts of Marble Zone, Labyrinth Zone and Scrap Brain Zone Act 3. I never really liked those levels.

Wow. This is actually *the* video that got me interested in the Sonic series in the first place when I saw it last year, and I'm glad I saw it.

HOW CAN YOU TELL WHAT FRAME IT IS!??!? Are you a cyborg or something?

I love your videos so much! Even though i cant do these glitches because i dont have the games its cool to see what you can do. Thanks for showing these! Im glad i subbed to you. :D

It just occurred to me but I'm pretty sure that this is the video that taught me about level wraps. Now that's nostalgia.

another glich: in the 2 zone of the first area crouch at the rock with a spring and jump. He runs in air!

Another glitch on the original release: Holding A+B+C while watching the demo play disables Sonic from jumping, so you can force Sonic to die. This also works in the ending credits.

Yes, I've been waiting for this! :D

I'm so surprised that you don't have more subscribers, your videos are some of my favourites on RU-vid, especially the Zelda ones. P.S. Please do a smash Bros melee video, I like the well known glitches like play as master hand, but would like to know more of them.

a debug mode, where you can add sprites at your leisure. all games need to have a feature like this.

1:47 It’s hard to see but Sonic’s quills are lava pallet coloured.

Dude, i really love your videos!

9 years later and still my favorite channel

this video was awesome ME GUSTA LI

I LOVED Debug mode, blew my mind as a kid.

OH MY GOD! FINALLY SONIC ! thanks man :D my favourite game series, i wish you would do all the sonic games, if you find glitches in them :D

i love those Videos they are so cool and i really like u explaining those glitches pls continue the great work :)

you forgot one glitch in the special stages if you have debug mode leave the borders of the stage and fall and then you will go into the glitch world (where random tiles are placed) and if you dont hit a exit tile you can fall below it and end up landing on a clone of the stage

“What? I-I want that ring box... I-I-I NEED IT!!”

awesome glitches, i'm glad you could share them.

I love the Sonic games' Debug modes. So much fun to mess around in. :) I didn't know about that life underflow glitch, though, or about the game crashing at that one point in the stage. I'll have to try those out at some point.

I feel like I missed out cause this game was part of my childhood but I had no idea about debug mode being playable!

at 1:35 if you look at the left of the sign it has the unused S monitor

The day I found these videos, I shared this channel with my boyfriend. Now we're both subscribed! We ♥ A+Start.

hi i love your videos and sometimes you are funny i really like these glitches. also they are pretty mindblowing and i really really like your sonic glitches because im a big sonic and sonic.exe fan!!!

I don't know what view or comment I am but I love your Glitches series! I Hope you don't finish it, or at least not this year XD

oh man Debug Mode good times

another awesome episode! :)

when I watch your videos on my tablet while intoxicated I try to tap on your channel tag to get to Playstation Plus. 10/10.

Hm... you should do an episode on Sonic 3 and Knuckles. That game has some very interesting glitches.... Especially in the Debug Mode. Like this one for example. Press the button to become an object, select one that you think might be interesting.... Now, exit that form, and find a special stage ring. As soon as you jump into it, quickly become that object again. When you exit the special stage, either by finishing it, or losing.... Well, you become a glitchy mess of sprites. Similar to Missingno. from Pokemon. It's based on whatever you were in the form of before doing the glitch, so there's quite a few forms you can take. And this lasts I BELIEVE for as long as you're in that stage, or until you die. So that's pretty fun. ...Also, there's the various ways Eggman, er sorry, "Robotnik" can die. Like being killed by Mecha Sonic if you go to Knuckle's last boss as Sonic, or Tails. And hitting him 255 times in Launch Base Zone. This game has a LOT of bugs. XD

0:37 That is Sonic top speed in Sonic 2 running in chemical plant

Great video. I never knew about these. The only one I found is if you finish a stage and keep pausing and unpausing at the beginning of the music and score countdown, you will notice a higher note appear and play until the end of the song

A+Start? Wow! Top of the hat Andy xD

0:26 look at the "scor"

Dude!! I did a 16-Bit Sonic the Hedgehog Glitches video a couple months ago, shame it's still not at 2000 views... ;D One of my best too! it was all three games though, maybe should have split it up but meh!

Interesting and awesome as always! Keep up the brilliant work of yours!

Great video once again :). But now i gotta play this game lol. Haven't got around to it yet.

7:51 Sonic The Hedgehog Maker

6:29 this also works on the Android version

Your just like i want that ring box I-I- I NEED IT! Nice vid M9

I love these videos! You should see of you can kind glitches in one of the original Lego games. I grew up on those and it would be cool to see them broken or glitches in cool ways.

Oh lord, does this mean Sonic 2/3/&K episodes are coming? Tails glitches alone could be like 20 episodes. I can't wait! =D

How to get debug mode: Up, C, Down, C, Left, C, Right, C, and last but not least, "A+START"

5:16 i believe the spike glitch is still present in the Sega 3d classics collection as when I entered the code for debug and put sonic below the stage in act 2 he kept on getting hit by the spike.

i was playing Sonic 1 in Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection. in Green Hill Zone Act 3, i touched the boss checkpoint and backtracked to the final ramp with the 10 ring box and went near the ramp and Sonic was tilted so, i had to comment this to you, Andy!

4:26 is literally impossible, every time I do this Sonic just glitches into the ground in his normal animation then unglitches

1:53 - I like the look of lava-textured Sonic. Is there a way to glitch it so that we can see the entire character model with this texture?

I am not sure if Pushing into the Animal Capsule or Super Mario Bros glitching into a block was the first Glitch I ever discovered as a Child...but I do know that I loved it back then.

wtf hahaha great glitches. i play this so many times as a kid! XD

Wait, this was 7 years ago??!!!

I put many many hours into this game, I don't think i've experienced these collision bugs before though.

Very Nice quality!

You forgot one glitch that I discovered as a kid. After you beat the game, the credits screen includes action shots of CPU-controlled Sonic running through various stages. If you press Up+C, Down+C, Left+C, Rght+C repeatedly (same as Debug code), Sonic will break from the pre-determined path and start screwing up the run: getting hit, missing jumps, etc.

One time i was playing sonic and a glitch ocured in Labaryth Zone,I broke an item box with a sheld but after breaking the box a Badnic killed me in one hit.

You should do a Skyrim episode!

Thanks A+Start, now I know why I lost my fisrt game of Sonic 1. I effectively did the glitch that gives Robotnik 256 lives, but I never knew it was a glitch. Until today.

You should do an episode on The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap, or one of the other 16 bit Zelda games, I'm interested to see if there are any noticeable glitches in them. I'd also be interested in a Son of a Glitch on The Legend of Zelda or Zelda II. I love the great work on this series, and I expect more great things out of you, A+Start!

6:20 why did the game crashed in that stage

Sonic 16 is coming out next year. Someone hold me.

Another interesting video!

Good episode, Sonic 2 (16bit) next please, It's one of my top 10 faves

Might you possibly do a Sonic Boom Son of a Glitch?

You don't really have to restart. Just wait 10 minutes until the game kills you due to Time Over.

Damn. Those are some crazy glitches.

i love these videos!

In the first zip I tried to, and I died.

do sonic boom that will be 99:99:99 bigger than youtube can count 😂

I love those Illegal Instruction errors. It's how I got my nickname to begin with years and years ago. ^_^

OMG !! I knew the deadly spike glitch was going to be mentioned !!